Hurricane forecasters are still watching a low pressure system near the Atlantic Coast that could develop into something more.

The area of disturbed weather was still over land in South Carolina on Friday when it was first given odds of development by by the National Hurricane Center. On Saturday night it was located about 150 miles southeast of the South Carolina coast.

The National Hurricane Center said Saturday night that a Hurricane Hunter aircraft may be sent to take a better look at the system Sunday afternoon.

Sea surface temperatures off the Atlantic Coast show the water is warm enough to support tropical storm development. (National Weather Service)

Sea surface temperatures are in the 80-degree range off the Atlantic Coast, which is generally considered the minimum for tropical storm development.

The NHC said environmental conditions favor the disturbance getting more organized and strengthening.

The disturbance is expected to slowly drift south and then could take a turn toward Florida.

According to a forecast discussion early Saturday by the National Weather Service office in Jacksonville, Fla., the computer models are diverging on this system: The NAM on one hand makes it a tight closed low offshore early Tuesday, but the GFS forecasts it to be an open wave that drifts across the peninsula.

The Jacksonville NWS, at least Saturday morning, was leaning more toward the ECMF model, which shows a drifting closed low east of Florida on Tuesday before moving it off to the northeast.

As of Saturday night there's a 40 percent chance of it making it to tropical storm status over the next two days, but that goes up to 60 percent over five days. Those odds are up slightly since Saturday morning.

A tropical system needs sustained winds of 39 mph to be considered a tropical storm.